Monday, April 28, 2014

Freelance photographer Maxim Dondyuk said photos were
taken without permission from his Instagram account.

http://rt.com/news/154548-pictures-russian-troops-false/

Pictures presented by Washington and Kiev as evidence
of Russia's involvement in Ukraine, and published on Monday by the New
York Times, were unverified and in fact contradicted the claims they
were to support.

The US State department acknowledged the error and the New York
Times back-tracked on its Monday story, which claimed
“photographs and descriptions from eastern Ukraine endorsed
by the Obama administration … suggest that many of the green men
are indeed Russian military and intelligence forces”.

The proof was this particular picture with an inscription “Group
photograph taken in Russia”.